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Widow's Weeds
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Using black clothing to demonstrate mourning a person who has died. Not only at the funeral service, but also any time she is visiting their grave, a woman in mourning is shown wearing a black dress and/or a black hat with a veil. Usually, this is the widow of the deceased, but it can be other close female relatives as well, such as their mother, sister, or daughter. Spear Counterpart is a man wearing a black armband to show mourning since men wear black suits in other contexts as well. According to That Other Wiki, black clothing and veils were colloquially called "widow's weeds" during the Victorian era, from the Old English word "waed," meaning "garment." Not to be confused with Black Widow, or with a widow cleaning her husband's grave of weeds. Or a widow carrying THOSE kind of weeds (or growing them). Its sole purpose is to communicate nonverbally that someone has died. This trope is typical of Western cultures, especially among Christians and Jews. In Eastern cultures, the traditional color of mourning and death is white, in which case, see Ethereal White Dress. |
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In Analogue: A Hate Story, *Mute describes doing this when a dear friend of hers passed away. | |
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In Chapter 10 of the manga adaptation of Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte, Elizabeth is seen wearing a black dress, a black hat, and a lace veil during a Grave-Marking Scene for her fiance August, who just died from Soap Opera Disease. The implication is that, despite not having officially married (her parents issued an Parental Marriage Veto due to him dying), she considers herself married to August, and with good reason: she has his child. | |
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AI Natasha of Other Space dons these to mourn the passing of Art the robot. | |
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Ersatz: The woman at the beach momentarily pictures herself in these after the man dives into the ocean to catch a shark. | |
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In The Serpent's Shadow, Dr. Maya Witherspoon is introduced as wearing a black outfit in mourning for her parents, who died a few months previous. It is mentioned that she intends to prolong the year of mourning as long as possible as a form of protection, as she is of mixed British and Indian descent and even a brute would hesitate to insult a woman of mixed race that is in mourning. | |
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In Playing Beatie Bow, one of Abigail's fleeting visions of the Bow family upon returning to the twentieth century is of a slightly older Beatie in black. She assumes it's for Beatie's sickly brother Gibbie, but it turns out to be for either her brother Judah who died at sea, or her cousin, niece, and grandmother, who died in an epidemic. | |
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The Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Night in Sickbay" had Archer having a Dream Sequence where he and T'Pol were all dressed up in traditional earth mourning clothes for Porthos's funeral. | |
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In Flesh and the Devil, Felicitas is shown primping in front of a mirror. Then she puts on a veil, which is how the film lets the viewer know who won the duel between Leo and von Rhaden. | |
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Street Scene: Rose changes into a black dress after her mother dies. Her father notices. | |
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William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: Juliet's mother wears a black dress and veil during Juliet's staged funeral. | |
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Parodied in a The Kids in the Hall musical segment, "Terriers." During the instrumental break, Bruce McCulloch comes across two veiled women in black bikinis, dancing beside a grave. He asks them politely to leave because "You're scantily clad and have nothing to do with the narrative; therefore, it's sexist... Wow. That hurt." | |
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Justice League: When Superman is presumed dead in "Hereafter", the other Leaguers (except Batman, who refuses to believe that he's really dead) wear black armbands at his wake. | |
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Never explicitly noted, but heavily implied with Almedha in Fire Emblem. Almedha was once a concubine of the Mad King Ashnard, Path of Radiance's Big Bad, and became queen dowager of Daein in the aftermath of the Mad King's War. She dresses in dark robes, is almost always seen with her veil up, and is noted to be quite fragile as an effect of all she's suffered through, to the point of going the God Save Us from the Queen! route for the sake of her beloved false son. Ironic considering that Ashnard never felt anything for her or their child (especially since it was discovered that their half-Dragon Branded child possessed no powers Ashnard could use to further his own ends). | |
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Josie and the Pussycats: In a "what if" Fantasy Sequence, Melody is persuading Alan M to let Josie help out more, instead of playing macho and doing it all himself. She describes a future in which Alan M and Josie are married, and Alan M works himself into an early grave trying to support her. "Before long, Josie is buying a dress she hadn't planned for." Josie is pictured in a black veil, shopping for the dress to wear to his funeral, while a sales clerk observes, "Basic black? We've been selling a lot of those lately." Seen here | |
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Hamlet: the title character traditionally spends the whole play wearing black in mourning for his father. | |
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In Les Misérables, the first new clothing that Jean Valjean gives to little Cosette when he adopts her is black mourning garb to honor her dead mother Fantine. | |
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Mrs. Dashwood, Elinor, and Marianne's mother wear these in Sense and Sensibility. The progress from all-black back towards lighter colors marks the progress of months. Her daughters also wear black accents initially. | |
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The undertakers' custom in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is to charge eighty percent of the insurance payout for the funeral, allowing the rest for mourning clothes. For Johnny's funeral, Katie gets herself a black hat and three-foot veil, according to Williamsburg custom, and Neely a black suit with long pants, as befitting his position as the man of the house. Francie just gets the shoes she has been needing anyway and has a black armband sewn on her old coat. Francine is relieved rather than jealous since she hates black and was afraid Katie might put her in deep mourning. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life: Dr. Hutchinson's mother, the Widow Hutchinson is always seen wearing a black dress and veil. Subverted when it's revealed that her husband isn't actually dead. In another episode, "Old Fogey Froggy," Bev puts these on when holding a fake funeral for Ed, who's refusing to get out of bed due to a midlife crisis. |
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Tristania recorded a whole album called "Widow's Weeds" which focuses on mourning and grief for a lost love. | |
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In Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem, red is the traditional color of mourning in Revaire, and Revairan widows are expected to wear red for a suitable period after their husband dies. When generating an Ambitious Widow character, the player may choose whether she followed this custom, gave it lip service by wearing red only in public, or ignored it altogether. | |
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In the Discworld spin-off Nanny Ogg's Cookbook, Nanny describes the various stages of mourning (from all black to adding grey and lavender, to being allowed to wear white with black trim, a process that takes three years). Nanny's view is that it's fine to just wear black underwear, and if she'd waited around for three years after her husbands died, she'd never have got anywhere. | |
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In My Reputation, Jess is forced by her mother to only wear black dresses, but she eventually pulls away from her domineering mother and dresses normally. | |
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Ashe from Final Fantasy XII is shown this very early in the game, crying over the murder of her father and the death in battle of her husband. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): "Come Wander With Me." As Mary Rachel narrates the events via the lyrics of a folk song, it becomes apparent to Floyd that he is stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop. She begs him to stay with her this time. He leaves, but he turns to look at her one last time. She is draped in a black shawl. He knows he's screwed. "The Hunt." Hyder Simpson and his dog have suffered an accident while hunting. He can't understand why nobody is answering when he speaks until he sees his wife wearing a black dress. |
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In Deadwood, Alma Garrett is often seen in black, and when she eventually wears other colors they're still subdued, like dark green. | |
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Kull the Conqueror: Queen Akivasha wears a black veiled dress after arranging King Kull's "death". | |
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In Persona 4, the Death Social Link is Hisano Kuroda, an old woman who always wears a black mourning outfit. The Social Link revolves around helping her get over her husband's death. | |
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In Cinderella (2015), after the death of Ella's mother, little Ella and her father are shown wearing black as they walk across the field just before the Age Cut which brings us to the film's main timeline. After her father's death, a deleted scene shows the stepmother and stepsisters wearing lavish black gowns, but the increasingly abused Ella is only given a black ribbon for her hair. | |
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Love of Magic: Emily in the Alternate Timeline wears a black dress, in mourning for the Owyn of her timeline who died. | |
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Belle is described as wearing a mourning dress when she breaks off her engagement to young Scrooge. Who she's in mourning for is never specified (in an earlier draft, and in the 2009 film, she describes herself as an orphan, so presumably it's for one or both of her parents), but it suits her romantic heartbreak as well. | |
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At one point in The Assassination Bureau, Miss Winter and a female antagonist have a montage showing them dressing in competitively glamourous mourning - both are rather too fashionable by the end of it for the intended sentiment to apply, but it's a very ironic movie overall. | |
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Parodied in Something*Positive. Attention Whore Kharisma Valetti attends theatre bigwig Avagadro Pompey's funeral in an outfit consisting of a sheer negligée over black cloth bands which barely cover her private parts. | |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, Beh'leeb Inmee, the widow of Case 3's victim, Tahrust Inmee, wears a black veil while carrying around a funeral photo of her husband. The game establishes that they both loved each other dearly, and she is even pregnant at the time of Tahrust's death. By the time the case is over, Beh'leeb takes the veil off, having said her goodbyes to her husband and deciding not to let the rebellion happen around her anymore, with her taking an active role instead. | |
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In Stage Fright (1950), Charlotte's insincerity and lack of remorse over the death of her husband is shown when she is primping and preening while putting on widow's weeds. | |
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In Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, Aunt Roo dresses like this when she sings to her dead daughter's skeleton. | |
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In the "Where Were You on the Night Batman was Killed?" arc in Batman, Catwoman wears widows weeds to the Joker Jury trial being held to determine who deserves credit for killing Batman. She dramatically whips the weeds off to reveal her costume when she takes the stand. Several villains object to her making a show of mourning the Caped Crusader. | |
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The Musketeers: Constance Bonacieux starts wearing black after her estranged husband is murdered. She didn't love him to begin with and had effectively left him for D'Artagnan, but she still insists on mourning him properly. After a conversation with Queen Anne about enjoying as much time as possible with loved ones, Constance decides to abandon the mourning clothes. Queen Anne herself dons these at the end of the series after King Louis and Minister Treville die. |
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Twelfth Night: Olivia wears a black dress and veil due to the recent loss of her brother. | |
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In Disney's Frozen, the king and queen leave on a journey. They perish when their ship capsizes during a storm, and Anna is shown wearing a black dress afterwards. Elsa is not, but she's so depressed she can't control her powers, so she can't even leave her room. | |
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In The Sims 2, Mrs. Crumplebottom wears this, complete with pillbox hat. She's also quite bitter and seems to be particularly upset by Sims interacting with each other romantically as if she were jealous. | |
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In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy thinks she has to go back because they can't afford mourning, among other reasons. "My greatest wish now," she added, "is to get back to Kansas, for Aunt Em will surely think something dreadful has happened to me, and that will make her put on mourning; and unless the crops are better this year than they were last, I am sure Uncle Henry cannot afford it." | |
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In Peter Pan, when Wendy and her brothers resolve to leave Neverland and go home, Wendy thinks to herself "Perhaps Mother is in half mourning by this time." In Victorian culture, half mourning was the later phase of mourning dress, when people would gradually start to wear colors other than black again; what Wendy means is that maybe their mother is missing them less and less, and will forget about them if they stay away much longer. | |
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The Legend of Anne Bonny: After Calico Jack Rackham is hanged, his mother shows up at Anne Bonny and Mary Read's trial dressed in black. | |
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Following The Death of Superman, all the attendant heroes donned black armbands with an S-shield at the funeral. Most of them were shown continuing to wear them in their own titles for that month. | |
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In Girl Genius Her Undying Majesty Queen Albia of England shifts her outfit to a long-sleeved modest dress and a black-veiled hat upon hearing that her sister queen Luheia, the immortal god queen of Skifander, has long since fallen in battle. | |
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Murdoch Mysteries is set in Victorian-Edwardian era (late 19th and early 20th century) Toronto, Canada, so many characters who have deaths in their families observe this, and many widows keep their mourning black for years after the deaths that prompted the clothing change. Just after her husband Dr. Garland is murdered in "Crime and Punishment", Dr. Ogden doesn't immediately adopt black clothing, and during his interrogation of her, Giles calls her out on it: "How very modern." Julia does wear widow's weeds after this, particularly when she's planning to meet Darcy's parents at the train station and in court during her murder trial. | |
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The male version occurs in Persuasion with Mr Elliot. Enough time had passed that he wasn't in full mourning, but he maintained a black crepe around his hat. The conversations about his (inevitable) marriage to Anne tend to involve the phrase "after a decent interval," even though it's also well-known that he and his late wife were unhappy together. | |
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In The Goblin Emperor, protagonist Maia arrives at court after his father's death in ill-fitting second-hand clothes that have been dyed black after having been another color originally. This unflattering outfit is one of the many signs of how his father, the late Emperor, neglected him. All the courtiers he meets wear black, if the colour of their clothes is mentioned. The late Emperor's widow, who is not much older than Maia, wears an excessive amount of black jewels. | |
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In Namesake, in one flashback Alice Liddell is shown wearing mourning clothes after the death of her younger sister Edith. | |
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Subverted in Their Eyes Were Watching God. Janie is expected to dress in mourning after the death of her second husband, but because he was abusive and possessive (such as forcing her to cover her hair and wear plain dresses for twenty years so that other men wouldn't look at her), she's all too happy to wear carefree colorful clothing again. This is mentioned in The Movie as well: | |
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In They Died with Their Boots On, Libby is wearing the black dress and veil when she makes her dramatic appearance in the last scene, her husband George having been killed at the Little Bighorn. | |
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Barbara Jagger from Alan Wake wears widow's weeds, most likely in honour of her dead boyfriend, Thomas Zane. | |
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Murder in the Alps: Irene Hoffman from Unforgiven wears black to show she's still grieving over her son Roberto Fiore who died eleven years earlier. | |
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Daredevil (2015): Karen wears a black dress when she goes with Matt and Foggy to Grotto's funeral. She does change into a brighter print dress later in the day, prior to having her first kiss with Matt in the rain. | |
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Unhallowed Metropolis features the Mourner character class. These members of the Mourner's Guild, usually women, are hired to watch over the bodies of the deceased until the funeral. During this time they must be ready to instantly decapitate the corpse should it re-animate, a common occurrence in the Neo-Victorian setting of the game. As part of their profession, female mourners are expected to dress in modified mourning wear at all times. | |
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Elemental Masters series: In The Serpent's Shadow, Dr. Maya Witherspoon is introduced as wearing a black outfit in mourning for her parents, who died a few months previous. It is mentioned that she intends to prolong the year of mourning as long as possible as a form of protection, as she is of mixed British and Indian descent and even a brute would hesitate to insult a woman of mixed race that is in mourning. In The Gates of Sleep, Marina Rosewood is, following the death of her parents, outfitted with a new and all-black wardrobe by her Aunt Arachne. Marina wishes at one point that her aunt didn't require her to be dressed in the strictest possible interpretation of mourning, as normally young unmarried women could wear mauve, lavender, or violet during mourning without offending anyone. She even thinks to herself that she would end up looking like Queen Victoria or a would-be Gothic poetess before her period of mourning is over. |
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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: At a visit to Aunt March's, Amy is shown her jewelry, including "the jet mourning rings and pins." (Jet is black, the only color of jewelry allowed to be worn during mourning.) When Laurie and Amy meet again in Europe, it is shortly after Beth's death. Laurie notes how poignant Amy looks, partly because of her mourning and "the black ribbon that tied up her hair." |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: There is a male example in Aegon III Targaryen, who always wore black since he was a kid. Having outlived all but one of his brothers, his father, and his mother (who was burned alive and fed to a dragon before his eyes) during the Dance of the Dragons, he was constantly in a state of mourning throughout his life. | |
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Romeo and Juliet (1968): Juliet's mother wears a black veil during Juliet's staged funeral. In the final scene, all the Capulets and Montagues alike wear black during the real joint funeral of the two lovers. |
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The Crown (2016). Elizabeth's father George VI dies while she is away on a tour of the Commonwealth, and her maid didn't pack a black dress, so when her aircraft flies into London Airport (as Heathrow was called then) a black dress is brought on board so the new Queen can change into it and be appropriately dressed when she disembarks. She later meets Queen Mary who has the most awe-inspiring veil. | |
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Played for laughs on Get Smart, as Max dressed like this when he went to his own funeral in disguise. | |
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Implied in The Princess Diaries. After Amelia's dance lesson, Clarisse turns off the music. Joseph turns it right back on, then pulls Clarisse close to him, telling her, "You've been wearing black too long." She had buried both her husband and her son. | |
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A Christmas Carol: Belle is described as wearing a mourning dress when she breaks off her engagement to young Scrooge. Who she's in mourning for is never specified (in an earlier draft, and in the 2009 film, she describes herself as an orphan, so presumably it's for one or both of her parents), but it suits her romantic heartbreak as well. Subtly alluded to when the Cratchits are mourning Tiny Tim's death in the Bad Future sequence. Mrs. Cratchit and the girls are sewing and Tim's death is revealed when Mrs. Cratchit tries to hide her tears by saying "The colour hurts my eyes," at which the narrator comments "The colour? Ah, poor Tiny Tim!" The implication is that they're sewing their black mourning clothes. |
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Batwoman (2019). After her sister Kate Kane is killed, supervillain Alice changes her white Alice Allusion outfit to black, even if the only thing she's mourning is that her Evil Plan to arrange Kate's demise has just been stymied by someone else. | |
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Temeraire: The protagonist receives word of his estranged father's death while he's on deployment with the Aerial Corps. For the rest of the book, he wears a black armband, as it's setting-appropriate mourning attire that doesn't conflict with his need to stay in uniform. | |
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Game of Thrones: Ellaria Sand switches to all-black outfits and cuts her hair short after her lover Oberyn Martell is killed. Technically, they were never married, due to Ellaria being a bastard while Oberyn is a high prince, but they clearly considered themselves married in all but name. The trope is conspicuously averted during the first season when Cersei Lannister continues to wear her usual bright colors despite the death of her husband, King Robert Baratheon, probably because she didn't actually love him and covertly arranged for the Hunting "Accident" that killed him. Cersei only starts wearing black after Joffrey's death and continues to do so as more of her family die. |
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In Jaws, a grieving mother angrily confronts Chief Brody because he didn't close the beach, and now her son is dead. She is wearing a black hat with a veil. | |
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In the Deryni novels by Katherine Kurtz, the widowed Queen Jehana wears all white (suitable to royal widows) for several years after her husband's death. Her quasi-nunlike apparel is also a form of protest against her son's open use of magic and his close relationships with other mages. | |
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White mourning appears in Anne of Avonlea; Anne wears white dresses during the two years the book takes place, it is specifically mentioned that the green dress she wears toward the end is the first color she has worn since Matthew's death. | |
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In Warhammer 40,000's background, it's mentioned that the Adeptus Custodes took to wearing black cloaks after the Horus Heresy, to show their shame and grief for being unable to keep their master from being mortally-wounded and placed within the life-sustaining Golden Throne. This was in addition to forgoing their gilded Power Armor to go about in their helmets and simple leather breeches and boots. | |
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In the "Little Sister" spinoffs of The Babysitters Club, the old woman who lives next door to Karen's father, Mrs. Porter, dresses like this. Karen thinks it means she's a witch. | |
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The Punisher (2004). Livia Saint is shown only from the back as she faints after receiving the news that her son has been killed, then at the funeral in a black dress and a veil which she removes to reveal her face to the audience when calling for Frank Castle's entire family to be killed in retribution, setting off the plot. | |
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Despite not loving her husband anymore, Willow from RWBY: Scars still wore a veil during his funeral. | |
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"Ballad of Forty Dollars" by Tom T. Hall. A man watching from a distance, but not actually attending his friend's funeral, hints at a desire to comfort the widow when he sees how attractive she is. He notes: | |
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Doctor Who: Madame Vastra's usual attire (when she's not wearing battle clothes) is a black dress and veil that fits the traditions of Victorian mourning attire. As Vastra is the only surviving member of her Silurian colony the choice to wear mourning attire is likely her way of honoring her lost family. The veil also helps to hide her non-human appearance whenver she goes out in public. | |
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Blake's 7. The actress playing Servalan decided to invert Evil Wears Black by always dressing in white. However, she changes to black after "Children of Auron" where she tries to have clone children created, only to lose them during the events of that episode. | |
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In the Circle of Magic universe, Traders (Family-based merchant caravans that travel on land or sea) wear red when loved ones die. Daja eventually adopts a red armband in memory of her family, instead of wearing the all-red clothes all the time. Sandry wishes she could do the same, but because she is a noblewoman, social expectations require her to wear full mourning for far longer than she likes; she thinks that her parents, who were fun-loving pleasure-seekers, would find it silly for her to be wearing all black for years after they died. | |
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Sonia is wearing the standard black dress and veil at the beginning of The Merry Widow. This doesn't stop Captain Danilo from wooing her, but it does stop him from recognizing her when they meet again in Paris. | |
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In The Golden Girls when Dorothy's cross-dressing brother dies, several heavily-veiled, black-wearing women appear at the funeral. They were the guys from his poker night. Blanche subverts this by wearing red, though this isn't in disrespect—she wears it specifically because she sincerely (and probably correctly) believes, "Phil would have liked this dress." And she modifies it with several touches of black anyway—hat, gloves, purse, etc. |
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The Importance of Being Earnest: Jack wears full mourning dress when he announces the imaginary death of his imaginary brother Ernest. Almost immediately, Algernon turns up pretending to be Ernest, and comments on what ugly clothes Jack has on. | |
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In Once Upon a Time, Regina starts wearing black after the death of her husband and "kept it" as she went public with being "the Evil Queen," saying it suited her. | |
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The title character in Enola Holmes briefly dons a set as a disguise. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "Innocence" after Angel turns evil, Buffy has a dream that she's at a funeral, during which Angel draws her attention to a woman wearing the mourning veil, which she lifts to reveal Jenny Calender, tipping off Buffy about her being The Mole. In "Villains", Buffy changes into a black shirt after finding Tara's body. Willow has already done a black makeover, albeit for entirely different reasons. And then when a redeemed Willow visits her grave in season seven, she's wearing a long-sleeved black dress. |
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In Disney's Encanto, Abuela Alma wears a black shawl most of the time, which represents her mourning for her husband Pedro, and the fact that her grief for him and fear of losing the rest of her family is the cause of the harmful pressure she puts on them all to protect the miracle. She finally stops wearing it in the end, when she finds healing through her reconciliation with Mirabel. | |
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In The Secret Garden, Mary Lennox usually wears white. She is officially in mourning for her parents, but her guardian insists an all-black wardrobe is too much for a child. | |
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Male variant in It's a Wonderful Life, with George and others at Bailey Building & Loan shown wearing black armbands after Peter's death. | |
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Scarlett O'Hara buries two husbands and a child in Gone with the Wind and wears mourning on all three occasions. By the sequel Scarlett, she wears it for her sister-in-law Melanie and later fakes being a widow to avoid any scandal about her technically out-of-wedlock pregnancy. | |
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Subverted in Thunderball. While James Bond is watching the funeral of SPECTRE agent Colonel Jacques Bouvar, he sees that Bouvar's widow is wearing a black dress, hat, and veil. Then he realizes that the widow isn't a woman at all... but a man, Bouvar himself, who was Faking the Dead. | |
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Downton Abbey: Lady Mary wears them in Series 4 after Matthew dies. | |
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The Punisher (2017): That Karen is mourning Matt is made clear by the fact that her wardrobe is primarily made of blacks, blues, and muted red clothes. | |
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